Futureshock section
Space
Launches, landers, constellations and the business of leaving the planet.
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Google’s Space Data Center Wrote a Haiku. Now Comes the Hard Part
Google’s Project Suncatcher prototype ran Gemma 4 on a TPU in orbit and sent back a poem. The real test is whether…
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NASA Redraws Its Moon Landing Plan Around Starship, Blue Moon and a New Centaur
NASA laid out how it plans to land astronauts by 2028: Orion meets Starship near Earth, Blue Moon skips refueling, and an…
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Japan’s MMX Launches to Grab a Piece of Mars’ Moon Phobos and Bring It Home
JAXA’s Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft launched on an H3 rocket with a German-French rover aboard. The plan: orbit Phobos in 2027, land…
